People | Social TV Spokane paper editor rips AP to shreds By Don Day on Sep. 30, 2008 - 7:46 PM The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington is ditching the Associated Press. The service no longer meets the paper’s needs according to editor Steven A. Smith. AP chairman and MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton ...
People | Social TV Our hyperlocal experiment and why it works By Cory Bergman on Sep. 23, 2008 - 10:11 PM Soon after we moved to the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard last year, my wife Kate reserved MyBallard.com after we noticed there was no daily news source dedicated to the community of 35,000. We rolled out a standard WordPress blo ...
People | Social TV Localism’s smart sponsorship model By Cory Bergman on Sep. 9, 2008 - 5:19 PM Back in July, we wrote about the launch of Localism, a hyperlocal site that leverages real estate agents to provide information and news coverage on a neighborhood level. We were skeptical about the ability for real estate agents ...
People | Social TV Curbed debuts NYC real estate listings By Cory Bergman on Sep. 8, 2008 - 8:48 AM The popular New York real estate blog Curbed.com (which is also known for its sister blogs, Eater.com and Racked.com), has launched a real estate listings section — another example of an online media company expanding its re ...
People | Social TV MTV goes local with Campus Daily Guide By Cory Bergman on Aug. 26, 2008 - 8:22 AM Even MTV is pushing into the local arena. Through a partnership with Zvents, mtvU has rolled out out 25 sites that are essentially city guides for local colleges. Called the Campus Daily Guide, they feature events, restaurant and ...
People | Social TV Local search site CitySquares growing fast By Cory Bergman on Aug. 21, 2008 - 8:49 AM According to numbers released by Quantcast, CitySquares.com is the fastest-growing search site on the web. Of course, CitySquares.com is starting from a small base — it expanded in June from the Boston area to New York and a ...
People | Social TV Topix CEO: Lack of local news helps us By Cory Bergman on Aug. 18, 2008 - 6:43 PM There are some interesting takeaways from this column written by Topix CEO Chris Tolles. (Topix is a local news aggregator and community that’s focused on regions, cities and neighborhoods.) First, Tolles does some rough mat ...
People | Social TV The battle for local: The players By Don Day on Aug. 17, 2008 - 11:36 AM With LR’s new focus, I wanted to lay out the landscape in “the battle for local” – and look at some of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Local TV In most markets, four to eight television stations compe ...
People | Social TV Inside Examiner.com’s local push By Cory Bergman on Aug. 16, 2008 - 11:57 AM As you may know, the billionaire owner of the SF Examiner, Philip Anschutz, is pushing into local markets with Examiner.com — online newspapers that mix local aggregation with original columns and community features. Right n ...
People | Social TV Gannett goes national with mom sites By Cory Bergman on Aug. 15, 2008 - 12:22 PM Over the years, Gannett has built out 60 or so local niche sites dedicated to moms. And now the media company is pulling them together into a network called MomsLikeMe.com, which just launched this week. So for example, RockyMount ...